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- From: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
- Subject: Re: talk.politics.usa.conservative (Was: Re: RFD: talk.politics.patriot)
- In-Reply-To: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu's message of 23 Dec 92 00:22:13 GMT
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- <BzoDI0.8EA@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <Bzorp2.630@polaris.async.vt.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:05:53 GMT
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- In article <Bzorp2.630@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:
- In article <BzoDI0.8EA@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
- >For crying out loud. How the heck am I supposed to interpret a proposal
- >like Brian's? I genuinely do not have the faintest clue whether the
- >"patriot movement" is a lobbying organization with a membership of a
- >million and paid staff of 50 or something that exists only in his brain
- >after watching Red Dawn once too often.
-
- Well, read the newspaper. I've read in the paper and seen on TV where
- Republican candidates and "members of conservative think tanks" decry our
- leaving the gold standard as some crypto-liberal-Democratic plot to destroy
- the world and call for us to return to it.
-
- Which newspaper? Which TV? You may note that Jack Campin is posting
- from Scotland. I am posting from Sweden. You cannot assume that USENET
- participants are from the U.S.
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